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First Class TE8 Diesel

29 Jan 2013 16:04

On 24 January 2013 Sinara handed over TE8-0001 to the Mechel-Trans Vostok transport subsidiary of the Mechel mining, metallurgy and power generation group. This is the first of the batch of 18 eight-axle single-cab main line diesels ordered by this operator in summer 2011 and built by Lyudinovsky teplovozostroitelny zavod.